Burner carburetor apparatus



March 5, 1929. 'J. 06D "1,704,565

l BURNER CARBURETOR APPARA'Q'S A Original FiledA Nov. 6, A 1919 wim mi? i Il Patented? Mar. s, 1929.

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JOHN GOOD, OF GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK,ASSIGNOR TO GOOD INVENTIONS CO.,OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

BURNER CARBRETOR APPARATUS.

Original application 1ed November (i, 1919, Serial No. 336,027.. Patent No. 1,377,989, dated May 10, 1921.

Divided and this application filed April 27, 1921. Serial No. 465,068.

The invention relates to means and method of starting and Warming up internal combustion engines', particularly automotive engines, and consists in the combination with 5 the carburetor in such engines of a burner means adapted to furnish a hot, combustible gaseous medium t the engine intake by the aid of which the engine can be promptly started in extremely cold weather and can also be operated with efficiency and elimination of tendency to knock after it is started, and whereby various collateral advantages are attained as Will be apparent to those skilled in this art. -This application is a division of my co-pending application, now

' Patent No. 1,377,989, dated May-10th, 19211 In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 illustrates an engine with the preferred form of the invention applied thereto and Figure 2 is a larger scale section of said burner means in one of its various forms.

In Figure 1, the engine conventionally illustrated is provided with a carburetor 1 which may be assumed to represent any ordinary or suitable carburetor. It is connected with the intake header 2 and has an air entrance 3, a-spray nozzle 4, a throttle 5, all indicated in vdott-ed lines, and also other usual parts, including a liquid receptacle 6 supplied by a fuel line 7 and connected to the nozzle 4 under the control of a needle valve, all of these parts being arranged as custoniary to deliver an engine-operating mixture of vliquid fuel and air into the intake for combustion in the engine, and as Will be understood.

The carburetor is secured to the flanged end of the intake 2 by means of an interposed adapter piece 8, which in the present case constitutes the connection for the burner,

although the latter may be otherwise connected to the intake passage as Will later appear. The burner as shown, comprisesan outside casing 9, provided with a spring seated air entrance valve 10, an interior perforated sleeve or shell 11 and a central spray nozzle 12. The latter is connected by a duct or pipe 13 With theearburetor fuel receptacle @/and provided/With a liquid oritice which is adjustably controlled by the needle valve 14. The burner spray nozzle is further associated with one or more small air entrance channels 15, conducting air direct from atmosphere in such relation as to shatter the air are not immediately thoroughly mixed together and the ignition occurs at a point where such non-homogeneous lmixt-urc is relatively rich in fuel, as explained in vmy copendingjapplieation above referred to. A similar nonhomogeneous mixture condition can be secured by other mechanical arrangements for bringing the fuel and air together in the ignition space of the burner. The fuel and air are drawn into the burner by thel suction effect transmitted thereto from thel intake pipe when the engine is being rotated by its normal starting agency, or is in rotation by its own operation. The outlet from the combustion space of vthe burner is governed by a disc 17,'adjustably mounted by screw threads in the outlet part 18 and co-acting with the wall at the upper end of the combustion space to form an annular crevice therewith, the Width of v'vhich maybe greater or less according to its adjustment as Will be plain from the drawing. this outlet crevice is to extinguish or pinch off the Haine so that only hot non-flaming gases shall pass to the intake, and any other means' suitablev for this purpose or adapted tov produce an equivalent effect, may be used in substitution thereof. The total area ofthe passage past the disc may obviously be made The function of f as large as desired by` proper selection of the diameter of the annular crevice, Without impairing its flame-extinguishing action. The spring of valve 10 and the liquid delivery permitted .by the setting of Vneedle valve 14 are correlated to cause-the burner to receivel proportions adapted yto burn without any strong suction effects or higher burning rates.

`The utilization of an air valve for this purpose is one of several so-called compensatingmeans which might be used for maintaining substantially. constant proportions. The combustion thus started in 'the burner is not allowed to become complete because the burning gases are immediately drawn into the flame-extinguishing crevice above described before all of the hydro-carbons in the mixture have had an opportunity to combine. A part Iof the mixture produced by the auxiliary carburetor device isA thus V burned for the purposeof heatingthe other part of such mixture, and the heated part andthe burned part are then conducted, together in the present case, through the adapter piece 8` to-the intake, where they are admixe'd lwith the main carburetor mixture resulting in an ultimate mixture which is par-I ticularly efficient and clean burning. rIlhe engine may be operated on this hot medium, admittedA through the adapter, for starting to the exclusion of any mixture from the carburetor, although it may be preferred to admit mixture from the carburetor at the same time so that the heat of said partially burned medium may serve to vaporize the liquid fuel of the carburetor mixture. This adapts the engine to be put immediately un der heavier loads than the auxiliary carburetor mightv of itself be adapted to carry, unless made of considerabl larger capacity. The temperature of the burner products, available for vaporizing purposes, depends ,uponv the time period-allowed for the partial combustion and as'represented by the distance between the source'of the .ame from the fiame-extinguishing crevice' and, other conditions being'equal, the Atemperature can be varied by the adjustment of that dimension of the burner. Conversely, the fuel value lof the auxiliary mixture varies inversely to the extent of combustion that is ermitted, it being obvious that the-more is urned for heating the less will be left to form a combustible medium. It 'is found satisfactory to'permit about fifty per centl of thefuel to be burned for heat purposes, but this, of course, is subject to circumstances, it being desirable that when the main carburetor and burner deliver mixture simultaineously to the engine, that enough heat shall be supplied to the main carburetor mixture accommodate complete combustion, but this I is generally found objectionable either because of the tendency to form soot or because it requires a corresponding compensatory adjustment of the proportions of the main carburetor, or the equivalent, in order that the engine shall receive, at all times, the most efficient working proportions of fuel and air.

In the apparatus illustrated the auxiliary` carburetor is connected to the intake between the engine throttle and the engine and is therefore subject to such variation of suction effect as commonly occurs at that point and thereby it is caused to deliver fuel mixture at a higher rate when the engine throttle is partly closed, or when the engine is idling, than does when the throttle is morel widely opened, and it may cease its function entirely` when the engine is' under full load if at suehi time the suction effect is less than that re-.`l quired for burner operation. It will be obvious however that such a carburetor as above described may be connected to the engine intake at either side of the engine throttle, and in fact at either side of the spray nozzle of the main carburetor, so long as adequate suction is imparted to it to cause its operation at starting or when the hot medium is desired. The starting agency is shown in Fig. 1 as an electric motor operated by a storage battery under the control of a starting switch 22. The same battery may also supply current for the ignition system of the engine which comprises the usual distributor head 19 provided in this instance with an extra point 20 from which` a lead is taken to the 'burner spark plug-16. It will be apparent that by closing the ignition switch 21 and also the starting switch 22, the engine will be cranked. over coineidently with the energization of the igniter, so that the burner thuscomes into operation without special attention or any unusual or extraordinary manipulation on the part of the engine operator. If the engine throttle 5 be tig tly closed when the engine is cranked, it may take up its combustion operation solely on the partially. burned gases produced by the burner as above alluded to, or the engine may be and preferably is started on a heated mixture produced by the mixing of such partially burned gases with the normal carbu retor mixture, in which event the heat of said gases serves to vaporize and thus perfect the mixture from the carburetor to the end .0f-

producing a quickstart of the engine as'will now be a parent. v

It will e noted that this effect is the result of commingling two mixtures of fuel and Y in.

air, one of the mixtures being'an ignited mixture in the sense that it has been partially burned and still contains unburned fuel and Vthe otherv being unignited, and that, so far as preferred for obvious reasons. y

It will benoted further that this invention differs from certain other types of carburetor burners in that the delivery ofv hot engine starting mixture to the engine does, not depend on the suction discharge of liquid fuel by the main carburetor into the region of the intake which is heated by `the burner, which region is frequently at a higher level than the carburetor fuel bowl, but merely depends on the discharge of sufficient liquid into the burner to produce combustion there- In consequence, a relatively feeble suction effect, as on slow cranking, is suiicient to cause the passage of hot mixture to the engine because it is required only to lift gaseous and not liquid fuel.

Claimsl. The method of operating an internal combustion engine which comprises causing' engine suction to produce two independent mixtures of liquid fuel and air, burning part of one of said,Y mixtures, combining the unburned part and the product of combustion with the other mixture and conducting all to the combustion space of the engine.

2. The method of operating internal combustion engines which comprises causing the engine suction to maintain continuous delivery of liquid fuel and air into each of two carburetors, maintaining completely combus tible proportions in the mixtures delivered by each of said carburetors, burning part of one of said mixtures, utilizing the combustion thereof for heating the unburned part of that mixture and the other mixture, and conducting all to the combustion space of the engine.

3. The combination in an engine, of a main carburetor and'anothencarburetor, both operated by the engine suction, means for heating part of the mixture ofthe latter carburetor by combustion of the other part thereof, and means whereby the heated part and the combustion products of the other part are admixed with the main carburetor mixture and conducted to the engine. A

4. The combination in an engine, of a main carburetor and another carburetor, means for `heating a part of the mixture of the latter 5. Theombination in an engine, of a main carburetor and another carburetor, means for heating part of the mixure of thelatter carburetor by combustion o of, said means comprising or including an electric igniter, and means whereby the heated part and the burned part are admixed with the main carburetor mixture and conducted to the engine.

6. In an internal combustion engine the combination of the engine intake and car.- buretor, of means connected .with the intake and operating independently of said carburetor for producing and introducing into the carburetor mixture, combustion products and a combustible gaseous medium. c

7. In an internal combustion engine the combination of the engine intake and engine carburetor, of an auxiliary carburetor, means for electrically igniting and burning part of the other part therethemixture produced thereby, the remaining unburned part being adapted for idling the engine andmeans for conducting both parts to said intake.

8. In an internal combustion engine the.D

combination with the engine carburetor, of`

means independent thereof for producing hot l combustion products and a gaseous combustible medium, rasingle fuel feed for said' 'combination with a carburetor capable of'operating the engine and a burner, the latter comprising means for cutting off the flame therein prior to its complete combustion, and

both being connected to the engine intake for successive or simultaneous operation by the suction therein. y

10. In an internal combustion engine, two carburetors connected to the engine intake, one of them being -provided with a coinbusn tion space and an igniter .and adapted to deliver hot engine-operating mixture to the engine.

vl1. In an internal combustion engine, two earburetors, one of them being provided with a combustion space and an v'igniter and delivering hot engine-operating mixture to the engine during the normal working condition thereof.

l2. In an internal combustion engine, two carburetor devices supplied from the same fuel source, and means whereby one 0f` them Adelivers a hot engine-operating mixture of deliver hot engine-operatimg mixture andiiao connected to the intake passage on theengine side of said throttle.

14. In an internal combustion engine, the' combination -of a hot-mixture producing means and an independent cold mixture producing means, one of sald mixtures including combustionp'roducts and both includ' ing engineoperating-fuel.

15. In an internal combustion engine, means for supplying the same with combusti- A ble mixture comprising the combination of a lcarburetor, a liquid fuel combustion device I tle, said carburetor and auxiliary fuel supply being adapted for coincident action to fur-' nish combustible mixture for the operation of the engine under load, and a combustion device associated with said auxiliary supply to supply heat to said combustible mixture.

17. In an engine having a carburetor, the combination of an'auxiliary fuel jet and a combustion heater coacting therewith to produce a dry mixture containing fuel from said jet, hot combustion products and air, and means to admit such mixture to the mixture produced by said carburetor.

18. In an internal combustion engine, the combination with a carburetor, a liquid fuel 'burner operated by the suction effect' of the engine, an auxiliary fuel supply, and means 'fuel supply all adapted to deliver to the en'-A gine intake, said burnerand auxiliary fuel supply being organized in a structure including an adapter fitting adapted for connection to the intake manifold of an existing engine and having a fuel duct for connection to said carburetor fuel receptacle:

20. The combination in. an internal combustion engine'hof a carburetor, a structure.

comprising a suction-operated burner and an auxiliary fuel supply adapted for connection as an attachment to the engine intake and having a common outlet to said intake. i

21. In a hydrocarbon motor the combination with the intake conduit thereof, of a main carburetor connected to said conduit, a combustion heater for supplying heat to said conduit, and an auxiliary carburetor connected to said conduit for idling the motor and to said heater. i

22. In a hydrocarbon motor, the combination with a motor intake conduit, of means for supplying mixture thereto foi` normal running, and means for supplying mixture to the conduit for idling, and a heater device for' said idling supply means. In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification.

,JoHN' Goon. 

